legacy

n.遗产；遗赠

noun

1. 遗产；遗赠财物
   money or property that is given to you by sb when they die
   1. They each received a legacy of $5 000.
      他们每人得到了5 000元的遗产。
2. 遗留；遗产；后遗症
   a situation that exists now because of events, actions, etc. that took place in the past
   1. Future generations will be left with a legacy of pollution and destruction.
      留给子孙后代的将是环境的污染与破坏。

名词复数形式:legacies

legacy 遗产，遗赠财物

来自拉丁语legatus,大使，使节，词源同legate,来自PIE*leg,读，说，词源同legible.引申词义指定，任命。后词义发生变化，用于指遗嘱，遗赠。比较legate,legatee.

1. You could make a real difference to someone's life by leaving them a generous legacy.
   慷慨留下您的遗产，改写他人的人生。
2. The old system has left a mixed legacy.
   旧制度留下的遗产有好有坏。
3. It's a legacy which will hang around the country's neck for some time to come.
   这项遗留问题在未来的一段时间内仍将困扰这个国家。
4. She offered to settle a legacy on Katharine.
   她提出要把一笔遗产留给凯瑟琳。
5. They now have to cope with the legacy of their past incompetence writ large on their balance sheets.
   他们现在不得不处理由于过去工作不力所遗留下的问题，这在资产负债表上一看便知。
6. These books are his legacy to the college.
   这些书籍是他给学院的遗赠。
7. To many Americans the westward March illustrates a legacy of individualism.
   对许多美国人来说，向西部迁移是表现一种个人奋斗的遗风。
8. Jirtle and Waterland set about to see if they could change the unfortunate genetic legacy of these little creatures.
   吉透和沃特兰在开始时想看看这些小生物是否能改变这不幸的遗传病。
9. The moderates, on the other hand, have left an ambiguous and, in the end, harmful legacy.
   而温和派们则始终态度含糊，最终，遗患无穷。
10. I think that my legacy is the leaders within IBM that I have mentored and coached over the years.
    我想，我的遗产就是我多年来在IBM内部指导和培养的领导者。
11. He inherited substantial property subtracted legacy tax.
    减去遗产税，他继承了富裕的财产。
12. The equivalent commands in GRUB Legacy are hide and unhide.
    GRUBLegacy中同样的命令是hide和unhide。
13. This might be an application server layer hosting adaptors integrated with application or legacy systems.
    这可能是托管了与应用程序或遗留系统集成的适配器的应用服务器层。
14. To achieve these goals requires multiple systems and technologies, both legacy and new, working together.
    要实现这一目标，则需要多个系统和多种技术（包括新技术和旧技术）共同发挥作用。
15. What mechanisms have been adopted for the integration of new and legacy systems?
    为新系统和遗留系统的集成采用了什么机制？
16. Co-existence of services with legacy code supports the gradual transition of system functions to the new architecture.
    与遗留代码服务共存，支持将系统功能逐步过渡到新体系结构。
17. In this case, you'll be tied directly to that legacy system or asset.
    本例中，将直接绑定到遗留系统或资产。
18. Legacy systems may have a role in deciding which platforms you can use and how data will transfer.
    遗留系统可能在决定您可以使用哪些平台和如何传输数据方面发挥作用。
19. I live with this legacy every single day.
    每一天我都在创造这份遗产。
20. There was also a legacy of one thousand pounds.
    另外还给了他一千磅遗产。
21. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
    这是我从马丁路德金、纳尔逊曼德拉和穆罕默德阿里真纳身上学得的变革之遗产。
22. We both recognise that this is history's legacy.
    我们都承认这是历史遗留问题。
23. She now has her own legacy to think about.
    如今，她已经可以考虑自己的创作遗产了。
24. I inherited his name and his legacy.
    我继承了他的名字和权利。
25. You're my legacy and you proved it again today.
    你是我的宝贝，你今天又证实了。
26. The Qin Dynasty left a legacy of a centralized and bureaucratic state that would be carried onto successive dynasties.
    秦朝留下了一个集中的和官僚的国家，将进行到历代。
27. As for Alan Greenspan's legacy?
    那么，艾伦格林斯潘留下了什么遗产呢？
28. You have perpetuated your father's legacy by continuing to harass and intimidate news media.
    你延续了你父亲的传统，继续的骚扰和恐吓新闻媒体。
29. So that's my record and, I hope, my legacy.
    那就是我的纪录，我希望，它也是我的遗产。